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Live Music Highlights – February 2011
Blending druggy guitars, sinister ambience and wordy, gothic lyrical themes, Esben and the Witch are one of the more intriguing acts currently threatening to... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
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Efterklang @ Òran Mór, 24 Feb
Still fresh from their elegant masterpiece of last year, Magic Chairs, ambitious Danish posse Efterklang head back to Glasgow's Òran Mór for a ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2011: The Music Strand
Gigs are conducted on stages in music venues; films are shown in cinemas. In its third year, the Glasgow Music and Film Festival takes such received wisdom a... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
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The Metal Column – February 2011
In the face of the recent panic that 'rock/guitar music is finally dead', we feel obliged to reassure all those lamenting some kind of rock-pocalypse that yo... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
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Ticket of the Month: Mogwai
So, not only have Mogwai blessed their new record with one of the greatest album titles in recent memory (Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will), they've als... Read more »| 03 Jan 2011 -
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The Metal Column – January 2011
Right, let's avoid any idealistic New Year sentiment for a second and just admit it: January is a drag, man. It was always going to be impossible to top Napa... Read more »| 03 Jan 2011
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Live Music Highlights – January 2011
There's no better way to ward off the January blues than with high voltage rock and roll and that's exactly what's on the cards at Glasgow King Tut's on 4 Ja... Read more »| 31 Dec 2010 -
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Celtic Connections @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 13-30 Jan
The biggest celebration of Scottish music and talent gets even bigger in January, with an eclectic selection of acts to please even the fussiest of palates. ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2010 -
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Forest Fundraiser @ Pilrig Church, 3 Dec
A group of promoters and musicians from across disparate areas of the Edinburgh music scene and beyond will converge this Friday (3 Dec) for a charity gig at... Read more »| 30 Nov 2010 -
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Live Music Highlights – December 2010
When afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti died in 1997 he left a legacy of musical innovation and political dissent that is quite unique. His son Femi Kuti has since p... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
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The Metal Column – December 2010
It's December. The nights have not so much been drawing in as they have been choking us of all life, the weather's miserable and worse yet – it's nearl... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
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Fear Factory @ QMU, 16 Dec
Pop had John and Paul; folk had Simon and Garfunkel; and industrial metal had Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares. Rightly or wrongly, if you were a Kerrang!-rea... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Torche @ Stereo, 24 Nov
Perhaps one of the only bands in history to attempt to bridge pop and metal – doom metal, for that matter – and not completely fuck it up, Torche... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
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Jimmy Eat World @ Barrowland, 19 Nov
Having spent the bulk of last year celebrating the tenth anniversary of Clarity – arguably their finest and most influential album to date – Temp... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
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Nina Nastasia @ Electric Circus, 8 Dec
New York’s Nina Nastasia will be bringing her lilting, delicate brand of folk-rock to Edinburgh’s Electric Circus on 8 Dec. Her latest album Outl... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010